CET 751
Windows 2000 Server Lab 

Step 1:  (This step is completed for us)

Configuring Your Server as a Domain Controller

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Service (DNS), and DCPromo (the command-line tool that creates DNS and Active Directory) can be installed manually or by using the Windows 2000 Configure Your Server Wizard. This guide uses the wizard; the manual procedures are not covered here.

  1. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del and log on to the server as administrator. Leave the password blank.
  2. When the Windows 2000 Configure Your Server page appears, select This is the only server in my network and click Next.
  3. Click Next to configure the server as a domain controller and set up Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS.
  4. On the What do you want to name your domain page, type Reskit.
  5. In the Domain name box, type com. Click on the screen outside of the textbox to see the Preview of the Active Directory domain name. Click Next.
    Note: As shown in Figure 2 below, the combined name appears as reskit.com in the Preview of Active Directory domain name box. The wizard puts the dot (.) into the name.

    Configure Your Server Wizard

    Figure 2. Configure Your Server Wizard

  6. Click Next to run the wizard. If prompted, insert the Windows 2000 Server CD-ROM. When the wizard is finished, the machine reboots.

The Configure Your Server Wizard installs DNS and DHCP and configures DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory. The default values set by the wizard are:

DHCP Scope: 10.0.0.3-10.0.0.254
Preferred DNS Server: 127.0.0.1
IP address: 10.10.1.1
Subnet mask: 255.0.0.0

Reskit.com is the Active Directory domain and DNS name, and reskit is the down-level domain name.

Step 2:

Add A User

  1. Click Start, point to Programs, then point to Administrative Tools, and click Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. Follow the instructions on this page:

Step 3:

Add A Group

  1. If not already there, click Start, point to Programs, then point to Administrative Tools, and click Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. Right-click on users and go to New -> Group
  3. Name the group and add the user you created in the previous step to the group.

Step 4:

Share A Folder:

  1. Click Start, point to Programs, then point to Administrative Tools, and click Configure Your Server.
  2. Click on File Server
  3. Click Start
  4. Select a folder to share and give it a name
  5. Customize the permissions to allow only the group you created above to be able to modify the files in the folder, give everyone else read-only access.

Step 5:

Log-in To the Server

  1. On the client machine, right-click Network Neighborhood and go to Properties.
  2. Double-click on Client for Microsoft Networks and check Logon to Domain
  3. Enter the name of the domain you created in Step 1
  4. Click OK twice
  5. Reboot
  6. When the computer starts up, log-in using the account you created above
  7. Double-click Network Neighborhood and browse to the shared folder you created

Something else to try:

  1. Try adding more users and groups and setting different permissions to them on the shared folder.